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Who is Adelbert Ames?

Adelbert Ames was an American sailor, soldier, and politician. He served with distinction as a Union Army general during the American Civil War. As a Radical Republican and a Carpetbagger, he was military governor, Senator and civilian governor in Reconstruction-era Mississippi. In 1898 he served as a United States Army general during the Spanish-American War.

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Adelbert Ames, Union general, Reconstruction senator, and governor of
Mississippi, was born October 21, 1835, in Rockland, Maine. A strong student,
Ames received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in
1856 and ...

the “Ames room demonstrations” [named after the American psychologist
Adelbert Ames, Jr. (1880-1955) who set up demonstrations involving a series of
illusions, and including distorted rooms so constructed that sizes and shapes in
them ...

former Civil War general Adelbert Ames. Ames had fought bravely for the North
and was deeply sympathetic to black ex-slaves. Ames served as military
governor of Mississippi from 1873 to 1876, and tried to protect African-Americans
from ...

At the same time, Revels found himself the victim of the political whims of newly
elected Governor Adelbert Ames, who resented Revels's support of Governor
Alcorn. With campus unrest and as retribution for Revels's allegiance to the
former ...